Cyrtorchis brownii (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Homocolleticon Summerh.

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Comparisson Photos between C brownii var brownii and C brownii var guillaumetii

Photos by © Francisco Perez Vera

Common Name or Meaning Brown's Cyrtorchis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi in evergreen forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying many,cyrtch 2 ranked, linear, leathery, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary or below the leaves, 1.4 to 3.6" [3 to 9 cm] long, 5 to 12 flowered, racemose inflorescence

"This species may be recognised by the relatively short ligulate but flat and fleshy leaves and the very dense inflorescences with conspicuous broad more or less overlapping bracts. The flowers are small (sepals .36 to .56" [9 to 14 mm] long) with a slightly curved spur.8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] in length." Summerhayes

Synonyms Angraecum latibracteatum De Wild. 1916; Cyrtorchis brownii var. guillaumetii Pérez-Vera 2003; Cyrtorchis latibracteata (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Homocolleticon brownii (Rolfe) Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; *Listrostachys brownii Rolfe 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Kew Bull. 14: 155 Summerhayes 1960

Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo ok;

Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989;

Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996;

The Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;

Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 as C brownii var guillaumetii photo/drawing fide;

Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006;

Phytotaxa 267 (3) 173 Droissat & Azandi 2016 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;